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Here are 2 of them. Mine and a customers we converted to manual.

I follow this guy on Instagram - carlos_e46_ Oxford Green with the MTexture and CSL styling - absolute beauty and great photos.

Almost looks like it might be time for a change of "sponsorship" too. Can I suggest, going off the above photo, an earthworks product may be more suitable? perhaps Ditch Witch out of the US - you could call it "Which Ditch" instead lol.

Guess we will know tomorrow if I have the 130 sorted! didn’t end up being too bad. About $700 for the sensor,motor,breather pipe and rocket cover gasket kit!

Tiny back and forward drive with acc pedal fitted, air filter connected and battery in boot 🤗🤗clutch is super soft bit yet feels so aggressive..touch of the 530 nm. Accelerator distancing seems fine too. ...and softness with the dbw 20210216_174304.mp4

Bronzit over brown 4dr with a 4spd(!) and keep-fit windows. Hold me back! Edit: This bronze bomber represents superior value https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/bmw/318/listing/2976494409

At least it's being done properly.

Bought another one, updated my signature, realised I have problem 😅

My E36 323i Manual..

Got the engine / subframe out of the car again so can start fabricating the mounts.

I'm working on a handmade door-card panel '94 318is coupe. I'm an old Scanvec/Amiable software sales and tech support Sign Maker. Cardboard template is ready. Next I'm using 24inch roll of "transfer-tape" and a marker for the 2nd template. Next, I'll use my phone to "scan" both. Bring the photo into my design software and start cutting it in vinyl. GET CREATIVE yall! When my file is done I'll share it with any e36 owners I meet.

Spotted Gerry in a Fiji Green 318iS that wasn't his racecar. Greedy!

Smooth as bro, just like she used an Epilady!

I remember a couple of years back there was a cheap Oxford Green with Mtex M3 on TM. Such a great combo, what a shitty thing to ruin.

Yeah looks like its had little use over the past decade and been stored with some sort of care. Even with the supposed full service history its likely just another overpriced E30 running on 20 year old parts and flaws when you go looking.

Criminal! Are your seat inserts the same "over the top" shambles? You've already got new material (from ASC?) so why not soak it in some solvents like acetone or dry cleaning fluid and see what happens. Of the five F2AT cars I know of in NZ, none survive. Yours got a re-trim, another was retrimmed to red(!) one is a racecar, and the other two have been written off. Such a shame.

@M3_Power Yes it spent time in Hamilton I believe. I had an NSX for a weekend when I lived in London and although it's not the fastest car, it is so well balanced and fun to drive. And I've always had a soft spot for Hondas. Shame they're so pricey these days. Reserve met on the auction... Damn cognitive dissonance!

It's Ice Blue, a BMW Individual colour. It's basically the same blue as the lightest part of the M3 logo. Doubt there are many in the world in this color - you have to like it! But it only gets positive feedback in person. The e36 is also an NZ new car, with almost 200k kms.

Used to regularly see another LSB M3 outside of femme fatale in the CBD when I worked in the city 😂 By far the best color.

Still one of my favourite die-cast models:

Came in early, wired and mounted...can make it adjustable for heel/toe demands....but shes looking and feeling well corona distanced..

My original M3 that I bought back in 2001. I’ve wondered where this was. Good to see it’s still alive and well.

Just realised that this thread got a little bit left behind 😂 anyway, engine has been in and running for a wee while now with a NA setup, staying that way for now until we get some more things sorted on the car finally got the wilwoods onto her this afternoon and dayum 😍😍 currently have the engine out of it, we fully rebuilt it before it went in but have had some troubles with the rear main seal so chucked a new one in, brake lines and a few other bits sorted whilst we are in there! about to start on some aero to get some better flow through the engine bay as it gets a little toasty in there!

@Karter16 mean, pretty sure I see that around Birkenhead pretty regularly

Oxford Green - DMD2. Dead

@KwS Oxford Green is my favourite available colour for the E46 M3, that car was dream spec for sure. Sadly according to @leichtbau that one was wrecked.

Anything thats manual and has a mint dash =$15k

My M3 was factory specced with the F2AT M-Texture interior, however as far back in the ownership of the car as I can see it has had black leather installed. I always suspected it was retrimmed due to small inconsistencies (I can't imagine what moron would retrim such a rare interior rather than just replace it with a black leather set and keep the original??). Sadly today my suspicions were confirmed. I took the door handle off the door card just to clean it and the leather had literally just been stuck overtop the original m texture fabric. After seeing this I decided to take the whole door card off and take a closer look. There were loads of signs that it had the insert removed before to be retrimmed. There were a few stickers with October 2007 dated on them which is when I assume this was done. As I plan on retrimming the whole interior back to it's original M texture anyway (already bought ~2800NZD worth of fabric) I decided to look a bit deeper and see if the entire insert still had it's original fabric. Sure enough... There was quite a lot of some kind of contact adhesive holding all the leather on so I carefully pulled away at it and eventually got the entire panel free Sadly the original material is ruined. Completely gunked up with the leftover contact adhesive. Tried everything I had to clean it up but there was no saving it. I don't know exactly how many of these were brought into NZ but I don't imagine many, such a shame to ruin a really unique and rare interior especially given the areas that weren't touched by the adhesive appeared to be in mint condition. Would have been cheaper and better looking to buy a good condition black set, not to mention saving one of <10(?) original M-tex interiors in NZ. Oh well...

So really big f*&k up on my part, trying to hard to try and make up 1.5seconds to get a class win on a hill climb saw us leave the road pinned in 3rd. Got a tad unlucky as there was a slip on the side of the road that we fell into, if it wasnt there we would have driven down the grass. Anyways, my mistake has resulted in time for a new shell.